I will say that I wasn't terribly keen on interview Lesley Stahl's tone and line of questioning the whole time, but regardless, Ms. Waters of course shone through. I love this quote:
"I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege and it needs to be
without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's
not elitist."
Agreed. While great strides certainly must be taken to make such foods readily (and not too expensively) available to the majority of the population, it does seem both possible and much-needed. And granted, too, that Ms. Waters lives in California, which provides a climate more suitable to year-round gardening, there are ways to bring pure, fresh produce to local markets and groceries around the country in areas too devoid of such provisions.
I already have dreams of having a big garden someday- even a farm, when dreaming big- and she really just inspires me so much. From her Edible Schoolyard and urban gardening programs (I love her term "edible landscape") she is active in implementing, to her restaurant, cookbooks (especially "The Art of Simple Food"), and more-- Ms. Waters' philosophies on and efforts around wholesome, organic and local food as a chef, a pioneer and a philanthropist are tremendously laudable (a vast understatement!) and something from which we can all learn and aspire to.
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